“We have a game that has been done for six months. It’s on the shelf, waiting for more families to have the console,” Ubisoft’s CEO told Polygon.
Hot on the heels of Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, Polygon is reporting that the developer’s CEO, Yves Guillemot, is holding off on releasing an unannounced, new title for the platform until Nintendo can start shoring up sales figures.
“We have a game that has been done for six months. It’s on the shelf, waiting for more families to have the console,” he told Polygon in an interview earlier this week. Guillemot did not say how many more consoles Nintendo would have to sell to get Ubisoft interested in releasing more games for the platform.
“We don’t have a number,” he said. “We need the sales to increase so it becomes more and more mass market then we will have the volume that will justify massive marketing and TV marketing.”
He made sure to point out that the Wii U version of Watch Dogs is still on its way in November, and Just Dance will also continue to appear on the system as it is “well suited for the machine.” While Ubisoft supported the Wii U early on with ZombiU, Guillemot seems disappointed with the franchise’s performance, saying it likely won’t appear on other consoles due to how tailored it was to Nintendo’s system. “Maybe it will come to other platforms, but not as a full game. It was really developed for that type of machine,” he said.
If anything can turn the tide for Nintendo’s system, Guillemot believes it is the new Smash Bros.
“I think we have to wait for Smash Bros. to come,” he said. “Smash Bros has always been a big, big property for Nintendo and for gamers. And we all know that there are lots of Nintendo fans that are waiting for big games to come. We know they are coming. We don’t know if they will still be there. I think when I speak with the fans that come to E3 90 percent of them are crazy Nintendo fans. They really love Nintendo and the games they do.”
Ubisoft just announced Rainbow Six: Siege at its press conference earlier today, along with updates on co-op gameAssassin’s Creed: Unity and Tom Clancy’s The Division, among others.
Source: Polygon
Published: Jun 10, 2014 12:50 am